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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.) The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We